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Bronx, NY, Intersection Renamed in Honor of Kalief Browder
On Thursday, Kalief Browder Way was unveiled. An intersection in New York City’s Bronx borough was renamed in honor of a man who took his own life at 22 years of age after suffering a grueling, three-year imprisonment at the city’s Rikers Island jail complex because he couldn’t make bail. According to HuffPost, Kalief Browder…
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Talented High School Junior Has Already Collected 33 Full-Ride Academic and Athletic Scholarship Offers
Some people got it and some people don’t. Seventeen-year-old Jahmir Smith has got it: talented both in academics and on the football field. He is casually racking up full-ride academic and athletic scholarship offers from more than 30 universities across the nation, including all eight Ivy League schools and every major program in his hometown…
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Texas Teachers Disciplined After Giving ‘Most Likely to Become a Terrorist’ Award to 13-Year-Old Student
It seems as if a few Texas teachers need to go back to school to learn that a joke is supposed to be funny. However, in shockingly poor taste, some Channelview Independent School District teachers reportedly laughed during a mock awards ceremony as they handed out certificates, including one that dubbed a 13-year-old student “most…
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Ala. University Student on a Mission to Mow 50 Lawns in 50 States Challenges Kids Worldwide
There are lots of things university students can do to occupy their time. The workload alone is one thing; then there are clubs, charities and other extracurricular activities. Rodney Smith Jr., who hails from Alabama, however, is on a mission to mow 50 lawns in 50 states. Smith started his own nonprofit, Raising Men Lawn…
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Sheriff Suspends Himself for 1 Week After Being Arrested for Allegedly Exposing Himself in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park
I’m no expert in the penal system, particularly as it applies to law enforcement, but something tells me that if you’re arrested for an alleged crime, maybe you shouldn’t be the one handing out your own punishment. Nonetheless, that’s exactly what DeKalb County, Ga., Sheriff Jeff Mann did after allegedly being caught exposing himself in…
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Video Shows 3 Texas Cops Forcibly Detaining 14-Year-Old Girl; 1 Officer Accused of Punching Her in the Face
A controversial video that started circulating on social media Sunday shows at least three San Antonio police officers manhandling a 14-year-old black girl as they forcibly detain her. On the video, one of those officers appears to punch her in the face. It was dark when the video was taken, but the officers are seen…
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Miss. Sued Over Unequal Education for Black Students
Mississippi is being hit with a lawsuit—accused of violating the federal law that allowed the state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War—because of what the lawsuit charges is the unequal education that black students receive. The Southern Poverty Law Center filed the lawsuit on behalf of four African-American mothers with children in public…
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Wal-Mart Shopper Tells Latina to ‘Go Back to Mexico,’ Calls Black Woman the N-Word in Viral Video
The deplorables stay wilding. It’s like they can’t contain their racist little selves. This time, a white woman is seen hurling racial comments and racial slurs at a Latina and a black woman in a Wal-Mart store in Bentonville, Ark., in a video that has gone viral. The video was shared Monday on Facebook by…
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Betty Shelby Returns to Cushy Desk Job With Tulsa, Okla. Police Department After Killing Unarmed Black Motorist Terence Crutcher
Tulsa, Okla., Police Officer Betty Shelby is back working a “desk job,” keeping the community safe, after killing an unarmed black motorist whose car had broken down on a highway late last year, the Associated Press reports. Shelby was acquitted of manslaughter earlier this month in the shooting death of Terence Crutcher. Shelby claimed that…
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NC Honor Roll Student Suspended, Prohibited From Walking at Graduation After Dress Code Violation, ‘Insubordination’
I have a lot of issues with dress codes in general, but this case is definitely one that takes the whole damn cake. A North Carolina high school senior and honor roll student is left worrying about her future in college after a huge fallout with the school principal over a shirt that she wore…
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